holy Grail on Thrash Hits

November 5th, 2010

Aren’t we all getting a bit bored of bands looking back with a sense of nostalgia they aren’t possibly old enough to feel? There’s only so much ironic pastiche/tribute you can take. The complete absence of either sickening nostalgia or knowing parody is why Holy Grail succeed where most fail. They aren’t taking the piss or just having a laugh – they sound like they mean it.

April 12th, 2010

In the continued game of one-upmanship that Download and Sonisphere have been engaging in for no good reason, today Download decided to annouce thirty acts. How the hell are we supposed to come up with enough snide and bitchy comments about thirty bloody bands? I ask you.